Title - Locomotion Author: Woodson, Jacqueline Publisher: G.P.Putnam's Sons Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Lonnie Collins Motion was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now Lonnie is eleven and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2157 5.2 920 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 74 Total # of Words 2816 # of Different Words 778 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2129 75.6% # of Hi freq words 356 45.8% % of Long Sentences 17.7 Low Freq occurs 141 5% # of Low freq words 89 11.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Required Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships Complex Problem/Solution First Person Present Tense Topics Teacher/Teaching Writing Changes Death Sisters Poetry *Family & Friends Religion Adoption Low Frequency Words alotta choir collards combed commercial cosmetics counselor dabbing delicious discount drawers eleven's embarrassed epistle familiar gepetto gonna gotta graftman guy's haiku halloween holler honeysuckle honeysuckle's hughes importance jeans jumble jumbled kinda knicks knuckles ladies lamont's langston ledge lili lili's locomotion lonnie loudness manhole marcus's mind's motion must've pigeon pigeons pinocchio pitiful pocketbook pockets poem poem's poet poetry poetry's preached president products puerto receptionist relatives rhymes rhythm science shower shrug sixers snatch snatched sonetto sonnet sonnets sounding superheroes swear tahiti talc tangerine throwaway twelve's underwater whiteness would've wouldn't've wrist yankees